ML38956391

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Sex

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IMG_4486

Observation details

Photographed extensively. The all-black backs, barred sides, and yellow patches on the head were conspicuous. Both had yellow on the head. Also heard vocalizing briefly. Slightly larger than hairy woodpeckers (seen next to each other). One bird was an adult and the other was probably a juvenile. I saw the adult feed the other one three times over about 10 minutes. They were feeding in firs (probably red firs) at the first switchback in from the main highway (about 0.2 miles in). The birds were roughly 40-70 feet up and were tapping relatively loudly. Hairy woodpeckers were acting aggressively toward the black-backed woodpeckers and chased them around the trunk of one tree and later from that tree to another one. There were three hairy woodpeckers in the same area as the black-backed woodpeckers. The photos below appear out of sequence so I added file names to the caption for each to make their order evident. I returned to this spot to look for the woodpeckers about 90 minutes later but did not find them.

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